Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Constructing Memory and Anti-Memory: the Monumental Representation of Fascism and its Denial in Republican Italy....Pages 11-30
Peasant Memory and the Italian Resistance, 1943–45....Pages 31-44
Italians in Germany,1938–45: an Aspect of the Rome-Berlin Axis....Pages 45-63
From Croce to Vico: Carlo Levi’s L’orologio and Italian Anti-Fascism, 1943–46....Pages 64-82
Liberation: Italian Cinema and the Fascist Past, 1945–50....Pages 83-101
Film Memories of Fascism....Pages 102-123
The Representation of Fascism and the Resistance in the Documentaries of Italian State Television....Pages 124-140
The Fascist Mentality after Fascism....Pages 141-160
The Italian Empire and brava gente: Oral History and the Dodecanese Islands....Pages 161-177
Italian National Memory,National Identity and Fascism....Pages 178-194
Memory and Representations of Fascism: Female Autobiographical Narratives....Pages 195-215
Days of Sodom: The Fascism—Perversion Equation in Films of the 1960s and 1970s....Pages 216-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-245